Set Quotes

Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?

Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

I can't stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don't like the way I'm doing it they can get someone else.

It's become normal for me to walk on set as Popeye, Frankenstein or an Elf or even a chicken.

It is necessary to develop a strategy that utilizes all the physical conditions and elements that are directly at hand. The best strategy relies upon an unlimited set of responses.

Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another.

I learned early on how to treat women by the examples that were set around me.

When I heard Little Richard, I mean, it just set my world on fire.

Or the Department of Education and another ministry were worried about duplication of effort, so what did they do? They set up two committees to look into duplication and neither knew what the other was up to. It really is a world beyond parody.

In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.

Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank.

Love is friendship set on fire.

Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.

When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

I would have done higher than that... I would have set it higher.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting.

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

People don't know where to place me. Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys', and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'. Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler Opposite' and six days a week, I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the 'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.

During practically all of my public life, I have been a sincere advocate of an agreement between the leading nations of the world to set up all the necessary international machinery that would bring about a practical abolition of war between civilized nations.

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.